Overview
In this role you lead the Trust’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response and business continuity efforts, ensuring safe patient care during major incidents and disruptions. You provide strategic direction to executives and committees, oversee the EPRR assurance program, and steer resilience across clinical and corporate services. You will manage a specialist team and collaborate with regional and national partners, shaping resilience strategy and incident response. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership position at a leading NHS teaching hospital.
Pay / Benefits
- Professional development commitments
- Policies to support work-life balance
- Competitive NHS Benefits
- Opportunities for cross-organisational collaboration
- Stable pension and salary banding
- Supportive work environment
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for EPRR, business continuity, and organisational resilience across the Trust
- Lead the EPRR assurance programme and resilience agenda
- Manage a specialist team and coordinate with clinical and corporate services
- Support incident management and command arrangements during business continuity issues or major incidents
- Represent the Trust in local, regional and national resilience partnerships
- Provide expert advice to Executive Directors and senior clinical leaders
- Develop and implement strategic service plans translating complex data for clinical teams
Key requirements
- Significant management experience in a large complex healthcare or equivalent setting
- Experience of emergency planning, business continuity or organisational resilience
- Strong leadership, influencing and partnership-working skills
- Ability to engage with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Experience delivering large-scale service improvements or change initiatives
- Experience of financial planning, budgeting, and cost-improvement programmes
- Ability to develop and implement strategic resilience plans and relate them to governance and statutory obligations
- Experience in multi-agency exercises and incident response within a large organisation
- Excellent communication across all levels
- Honesty, integrity, fairness, tenacity and resilience
- Proactive, methodical, and flexible
- Emergency Planning
- Business Continuity
- EPRR governance and policy understanding
Organisational Resilience - Service Manager in Sheffield employer: National Health Service
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and collaborative work environment for healthcare professionals in North Wales. With a commitment to employee development and a focus on compassionate care, staff have access to continuous professional development opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact in both acute and community paediatrics. The Health Board's integrated approach ensures that employees are part of a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for the local population.
